Personal Narrative: Social Anxiety

For many years, I struggled with social anxiety and a fear of what others were thinking, as I’ve moved through high school, I’ve been able to move past this anxiety and engage with the community more easily. Early on my anxiety hurt my move into high school, I went from kindergarten through eighth grade in a school of around 120 students to high school, of about 10 times more. The main issues my anxiety concerned were involvement in class, and expressing my opinion, much of it out of a fear of being wrong. By getting thrown into this much larger school, I adapted much quicker than I might have if I had gone somewhere more nurturing, I quickly shifted how I acted when dealing with other people and in class. I’ve been able to express my opinion